The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 18
Then--wonderful to relate!--all the snakes that he had previously eaten returned to life again.
Who acts: snakes · What happens: relate, eat, return
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snakes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 wonderful | advmod |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonderful | punct |
| 3 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 relate | mark |
| 5 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wonderful | xcomp |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonderful | punct |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 snakes | punct |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 snakes | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 snakes | det |
| 10 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wonderful | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 eaten | nsubj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 eaten | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 eaten | aux |
| 14 | previously | previously | ADV | _ | 15 eaten | advmod |
| 15 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 snakes | acl:relcl |
| 16 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 eaten | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 life | case |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 returned | obl |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 returned | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonderful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | to-infinitive | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | eat | past · perfect | all snakes | rain nsubj; previously property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | return | participle | all snakes not said here | again | to life result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to life=Result |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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